Re: Fixed release dates are hurting quality

To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>, Debian Development <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Fixed release dates are hurting quality
From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 10:20:19 -0400
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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> writes:

> It shouldn't be enough for a package to have its worst bugs fixed like FTBFS or
> crashes when it gets shipped with a release. Packages that are being shipped with
> a release should also be properly maintained or not shipped at all.

For context, there are currently 929 packages maintained by
packages@qa.debian.org. That doesn't count packages that have an
inactive maintainer, which is more challenging to quantify.

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